Tuesday, May 8, 2012

It Was a Dark and Rainy Day...

The kitchen light bulbs blew and it's quite dark today. It's one of those brooding Spring days when there isn't much light making it through the new canopy of leaves and gray clouds. The rain's steady, too. I'm waiting for one of the guys to show up with new tubes when I read the news that Maurice Sendak has died. As my Mom would've said, the angels are crying.

And that's just the start of the news today.
Sarkozy's out, Hollande is in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/07/francois-hollande-nicolas-sarkozy

Merkel tells Greece and France to budget
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/07/eurozone-crisis-merkel-athens-paris

Santorum contradicts himself
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/rick-santorum-endorses-mitt-romney-calling-gop-rival-worst-choice-battle-president-obama-article-1.1074168

The least bang for your buck? In the US, of course
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/health-care-spending-highest-japan-lowest-spending-8000-person-compared-countries-europe-article-1.1073819

Why are the wild things dying?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/world/americas/peru-has-no-answers-on-dead-dolphins-and-seabirds.html?

I'll refrain from the Stones song references
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/science/wild-horses-fate-in-outer-banks-lies-in-preservation-clash.html?ref=science

Must be a Romney relative
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10232297

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The horses are beautiful in their natural state....left to their own devices they will likely die out in a few years from inbreeding. Surely, this is nature and not something to be messing with. Still, it's hard to see them fade away.
Hope you get your lights back soon. It's grey and dismal here as well, rained all night.

Elephant's Child said...

The gentleman with the unusual hood ornaments takes the cake. We require licenses for so many things that are less important than parenting. Bah.

Twisted Scottish Bastard said...

That's sad about Sendak. My kids loved "Where the wild things are"